I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy - J. D. Salinger

"I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human